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The Board of Directors

Sweet Briar Institute was incorporated as a non-stock corporation by Act of the General Assembly of Virginia approved February 9, 1901. The affairs of the College are managed by a self-perpetuating Board of Directors consisting of no fewer than 24 nor more than 35 members elected annually at the spring meeting of the Board.

Members of the Board are elected for three-year terms and include the President of the College, the President of the Alumnae Association, and three alumnae class representatives, consisting of one representative from each of the three most recent graduating classes. A director (excluding the President of the College who has no limit on the number of years or terms he or she can serve) cannot serve more than three successive three-year terms on the Board. Directors elected as officers can serve up to one additional three-year term, for a total of up to twelve successive years.

The President of the College and the President of the Alumnae Association are ex-officio members of the Board. The President of the College and the Chairman of the Board are ex-officio members of all committees of the Board of Directors.

2008 - 2009 Membership

Executive Committee

Virginia Upchurch Collier '72, M.D.
Chair of the Board
Chestertown, Maryland

Barbara Smith Young '71, B.A.
Vice-Chair of the Board
Chairman, Committee on Development
Lexington, Kentucky

Frances A. Root '80, B.A .

Secretary of the Board
Chair, Investments Committee
New York, New York

David W. Breneman, Ph.D.
Chair, Educational Programs Committee
Charlottesville, Virginia

Lawrence W. Broomall, Ed.D.
Chair, Finance Committee
Lexington, Virginia

Diane B. Dalton '67, M.A.
Chair, Committee on Directors

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Rachel O. Flynn, M.S.
Chair, Buildings and Grounds Committee
Charlottesville, Virginia

Jane Eastin Hager '67, B.A.
Chair, Audit Committee
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld, Ph.D.
President of the College
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Elizabeth H.S. Wyatt '69, M.B.A.
Chair, External Affairs Committee
Summit, New Jersey


 

 

 

Directors

Natalie A. Batman '08, B.A.
Young Alumna Director

Amherst, Virginia

Jennifer E. Crossland '86, J.D.
President, Alumnae Association
Richmond, Virginia

Leigh C. Darrell '06, B.A.
Young Alumna Director
Chestertown, Maryland

John B. Demere, B.A.
Savannah, Georgia

Catherine Newman Detering '76, B.A.
Houston, Texas

Susan Sellers Ewing '71

Richmond, Virginia

Judy Wilson Grant '66, B.A.
Littleton, Colorado

Sandra G. Herring '74, J.D.
Durham, North Carolina

Denva E. Jackson '05, B.A.
Young Alumna Director
Boston, Massachusetts

Dennis K. Janiak, M.B.A.
Altavista, Virginia

Donna Pearson Josey '64, B.A.
Houston, Texas

Sally Old Kitchin '76, B.A.
Virginia Beach, Virginia

JoAnn Soderquist Kramer '64, M.A.E.
Essex Junction, Vermont

Anita Clarendon Ledsinger '73, B.A.
Bethesda, Maryland

Richard E. Leslie, B.A.
New York, New York

C. Allen Martin, Jr., D.M.D.
Mobile, Alabama

Antonia Bredin Massie '77, B.A.
Washington, Virginia

Karen Gill Meyer '63, B.A.
Scottsdale, Arizona

Anne Litle Poulet '64, M.A.

New York, New York

Diane Dale Reiling '73, B.A
Mercer Island, Washington

Paul G. Rice, B.S.
Warrenton, Virginia

Anne Wilson Rowe '57, B.A.
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Maggie E. Bell Saylor '07, B.A.
Young Alumna Director
Bluffton, Ohio

Anne Darden Self '80, B.A.
Fort Worth, Texas

Edward G. Steves, B.S.
San Antonio, Texas

Elvira McMillan Tate '65, M.A.T.
Atlanta, Georgia

 

Emeriti Trustees

Ann Ritchey Baruch '62
Haverford, Pennsylvania

Walter H. Brown '49 hon.
Madison, New Jersey

Ethel Ogden Burwell '58
Grosse Point Farms, Michigan

Nannette McBurney Crowdus '57
Madison, Virginia

Michela A. English '71
Washington, DC

Carol McMurtry Fowler '57
Austin, Texas

Sarah Belk Gambrell '39
Charlotte, North Carolina

Nancy Hall Green '64
Atlanta, Georgia

Bradley Hale
Atlanta, Georgia

L. Parker Harrell, Jr.

Washington, DC

Dale Hutter Harris '53
Lynchburg, Virginia

Nancy Hudler Keuffel '62

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Frances Griffith Laserson '70
New York, New York

Sara Finnegan Lycett '61
Delta, Pennsylvania

Margaret Sheffield Martin '48
Atlanta, Georgia

Norma Patteson Mills '60
Chattanooga, TN

Vaughan Inge Morrissette '54
Mobile, Alabama

Mary Johnson Nelson '64
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Joanne Holbrook Patton '52
South Hamilton, Massachusetts

Joy Kathleen Garcia Pegues '71
Warrenton, Virginia

Mark H. Prothro
Wichita Falls, Texas

Patricia Powell Pusey '60
Arlington, Virginia

Anne Wilson Rowe '57

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Elaine Schuster '58
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Allison Stemmons Simon '63
Irving, Texas

Katherine Upchurch Takvorian '72
Concord, Massachusetts

Mildred Newman Thayer '61
Whitefield, New Hampshire

Mary Fleming Finlay Thompson '66
The Plains, Virginia

Elizabeth Smith White '59
Charlotte, North Carolina

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp '68
Atlanta, Georgia




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